Illustrator CS5.5 on Mac: When I copy text from one Illustrator document and pase it in a different document, the text canges to Myriad (the deafult font). Is there a setting somewhere to preserve the formatting? Even pasting into an existing text style still changes the font.

If I set text in ... oh... say.. ClanPro in one Ai document, copy it, switch to a different AI file and paste.. I get ClanPro. Text pastes in exactly as it was copied. In fact, nothing I do here results in the font choice being reset to Myriad.

Yes, my reply was wrong, I did not see it was from Illustrator to Illustrator.

Even between different programs, not sure on a Mac but on my PC using Windows 7, I Just made a test with copying formatted text from Microsoft Word 2007 to Illustrator SC5 and the same font and formatting was preserved.

Using the Illustrator CS5.5 text tool, I copy a few words from a paragraph that has a text style. I paste it into a similar document and the font changes to the default Myriad.

I know font info is not retained between different programs. Both files are Illustrator CS5.5. I don't remember this issue in CS5.

Fonts are OTF, both paragraphs use the same style. It's very strange and can cause production issues if I don't pay attention. A workaround is copy from Doc A, paste into TextWrangler (or similar), paste into DocB. That retains the font (but of course removes any character styles.

Can I email my file to any of you to confirm its not something on my system? Just to be clear, none of you have this problem?

I think it must be some kind of character or paragraph style that is kicking in somehow.

I agree. If you altered the [Basic paragraph] style to something other than Myriad then the style of the new (paste to) document would overwrite that style since [Basic Paragraph] in all AI documents is Myriad by default. Howver, if you create a new paragraph/character style, that should be retained.

Got your files, and could not reproduce the probelem with CS5 on windows, will try this on a mac CS4 tomorrow. Can you specifially give an example of what element this problem happens 100% of the time with, or does it happen with any text I copy and paste with the text tool.

Char &paragraph style are buggy in illustrator, and unfortuantely copying between docuements really does not work well, especially when copying by the text tool.

Copy text with the text tool (I- Beam) and paste in a a new document, the styles will not come over

Copy your text with a selcection tools, paste into a new or exisitng document, the style appear in the char & par palettes, but they have a plus (overrides) after them, so you want to clear overirdes

In both cases the text should look the same in the new document you paste to (unelss the new document has a style with the EXACT same name.

I don't have another Mac. But issue didn't happen prior to CS5.5 update. I've tried other suggestions before, no luck, I'm fairly certain the issue is with Adobe and CS5.5 font handling.

There's another type issue with Font Explorer X that I have on another thread. Font Explore X tech sent me a patched font app handler. I;m curious to see if anyone else using 5.5 under Snow Leopard has issues.

Laws, I've been using CS5.5, CS5, CS4, and CS3 with OS 10.6.x and have never seen the issue you have. In fact, I've never seen it on any Mac with any version of Adobe apps. Ther's something else afoot with your system.

Based on your last post, I suspect if you remove FontExplorerX, your copy/paste issue may vanish.

Yeah, it only showed up after 5.5 upgrade. I have another issue with CS5.5 apps not seeing fonts (a different thread) and Font Explorer X tech sent me a patched app that fixed the problem. So you maybe right, I'll test it later. I bought every font handler before and liked Font Explorer X Pro, maybe have to switch again.

Hi everybody, I read all the discussion and it seems there is no solution for this problem so far. I have the same problem under Windows but not with Mac. In the same document, even in the same layer, just copying a text object or several objects where one of them is a text and then pasting gives me only a text with the default unformated Myriad font. This problem happens only in Windows, not in Mac, so I'm guessing that something within the preferences or configurations of Illustrator (Windows) has changed.

I've tried erasing the preferences files (AIPrefs and Workspace\AIWSPrefs, and also IllustratorFnt.lst) but the problem continues. Can somebody please help us?

Elaborating on the fifth post by Steve, there may be a few possible errors/interferences. Here is a list of things you may try in serious cases like this (you have done the first few already) and see whether it helps:

1) Close down Illy and open again;

2) Restart the computer;

3) Close down Illy and press Ctrl+Alt+Shift/Cmd+Option+Shift during startup;

Thanks all. Clearly some people don't have this issue. After all fixes, its still there. I run CS5.1 (15.1.0) on Mac 10.6.8. (I also use CS2 on XP, no issues.)

I believe it only happens when a defined style is used. My workaround is to copy text, paste it into a plain text editor (TextWrangler), re-copy that text and paste it into the destination. The issue occurs exactly as pikotato expained above, even within the same Illustrator doc, the text changes to the default Myriad font. I have not edited the default font.

Below is a screen cap. The text has a paragraph style defined by me. I copied the words "grease and almost." I pasted the those words into the paragraph. The font changed to Myriad rather than retaining the paragraph style.

This same problem started happening on my PC a few days ago, but I can't pinpoint exact time or date, but I think it started after opening a file from a Chinese partner - who I think created in Corel? It is driving me BATTY. It always reformat back to Myriad Pro font at 12pt. type. If I have other vector information, or rotated text, all that information is lost.

I am using CS5 15.1.0

I am going to go ahead and call this a bug.

It does not happen when copying formatted text from one selected text block to another text block. However, if I select one or more objects, and at least one of them contains text, the formatting of all will be lost.

I have been having the same problem on my 64-bit Windows 7 machine for a few weeks now and it's SO FRUSTRATING. It happened out of nowhere and I've tried all the fixes listed above except for the reinstall. This is my work computer and I will have to go through the IT dept to do a reinstall (they have the software), and I am not seeing here that it has helped anyways. In addition to what everyone has said, if I select a group of objects that includes a line of unoutlined type, and paste, ALL that pastes in the stupid line of type, no other objects, and of course it's back to myriad 12 pt. AGHAGHAGHAGH!!! Obviously, there is an issue that Adobe might want to look into.

Thank you SO MUCH cjmelendy1978 for at least the "duplicate" workaround. It's a lifesaver, seriously.

If it helps, I'm having the same problem but someone on a different forum suggested that some kind of weird interaction with Chrome was the problem. So I closed Chrome and tried to copy and paste the text and then the font is preserved, reopen Chrome and try again and the problem comes back! So the short term solution seems to be to work without Chrome open, but if anyone could point me to a better solution that would be much appreciated!

Same here, not using Chrome. Also, the copy/paste error example I posted earlier was on Mac. But interesting, I wonder if some other program is monopolizing clipboard memory? I only have this problem in Illustrator CS5.1.

I am on a PC with CS5. I think you are right about the clipboard memory, though I just tried it with no other programs running and still having the issue. Sure would be nice if Adobe would step up and take a look into it.....jsut saying.

I thiknk I found the problem! Disable Skype Click-to-Call in your browser. I am now able to keep chrome open and copy and paste. I was starting to see this problem show up in word and excel. I don't have a Mac to test with, but I would try to diasble it in Safari.

Same here Illustrator CS5 (15.0.2) Win 7x64. Draganddropping between files works, copy-pasting - does not. All the programms except Illustrator are closed, i have tried everything. It started suddenly - I had two files opened, first copy-paste was ok, the second was only plain text.

Thanks for the helpful answers! My colleague randomly started having this problem today, and I found that disabling the Skype plugin was the solution. She's using CS5 and Internet Explorer, so Chrome may not be the issue after all.